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LAW CARPS. ®
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j. is. ii. Stanley,
A TTOIJNEY -AT LAW,
±\. ® QUITMAXfBUOOKS CO., GA.
Will practice in the Counties of tne Southern Circuit,
and Coffee, Clince, Ware and Echols of the Brunswick
Circuit. \ ® def- f( tt
W. 16. llcnnct,
ATT©RIfeEY AT LAW,
QUITMAN. BROOKSbCO., C.A.
NVill practice ffi Thomas, Lowndes, Brooks and Berri
en
.8. El. Alexander,
Attorney at law, 9
i,.!f ifs-tf * 1 JIO.MASVItiLE, c? v.
® 1. 16. Ssoirrtl,
Attorney at law,
m WARES BOROUGH, GA.
Will practice the counties of the Circuit,
and in Lowndes and Berrien Counties ot the Southern
Circuit. ® je I'd ts ®
Molin 11. Dyson, ®
Attorney at law, @ ®
® THOMASVILLE, GA.
Office next n#l>r to Dr. Bruce’s. ® mh 18 tf 1
IliikTiio 1.. Hines,
Attorney at law,
je 26-ts THOMAS! ILLE, GA.
L. C. Bryan,
Attorney at law.
nih 10 ® THOMASVM.LE, GA.
® 13. C. Jlorsjau,
Attorney at o law,
NASHVILLE, BERRIEN CO. GA.
Will praeticeon the Counties of the Southern Circuit;
and the Counties of Doolv. Worth and Dougherty of the
Macon; and Coffee, Clinch and Ware of the Briffiswick
Circuit. Address at FUtt Creek Post Office, Ga.
mh 18 ts
, 11. T. Peoples,
Attorney at law,
NASHVIELE, BERRIEN CO., GA.
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Samuel 16. Spencer,
Attorney 0 at law, „ ®
THOM AS VILLEN GA.
IV ill give his entire attention to the Practice of Law
9 in the Counties of the Southern Circuit.
Office on the second floor of Donald McLean's Brick
building. mh 18 ts
A. V. McCardel,
TUSTICE OF THE PEACE-
O Office at the Courthouse, Thomasville, Ga.
All business entrusted to bint will be attended to prompt
ly and dispatch. mh 2o ly #
Chas. 11. Remingrton
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Office Opposite the Post Office, Thomasville.
Collections of all kinds taken on liberal terms, either
in Justice's, Superior or Inferior Courts. nih 18 ts
Srliofield’s _
IRON WORKS,
ADJOINING THE PASSENGER DEPOT,
Macon Georgia,
* Manufacturers of
STEAM r.ngiiic* and Boilers,
Mill and <;in Gearing,
Cane Mills and Pans, m
Syrup Boilers,
Mi ailing and Pulley.
AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY MADE TO
o order at snort notit e.
*• E REMINGTON it SON,
*J an Hly Agents, Thomasville, Ga.
JoTd WorTt _
now PREPARED TO UO ALL
kinds of JOB PRIN UNO, from a Visiting Card to
t large Poster, at the Enterprise office Try us
S ■ <> •: HR V A*. >
( _ Editor A I‘roi* iclor.
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MEDICAL AND DENTAL CARDS.
[medical car if:]
Drs. Bruce N? lteed.
Having formed a copartnership in
the pr.: tiee of Medicine. ol® r their serviei* to the
public. ® *
l ts Ollice. the one Qjjctipieil by Bruce for/nany years.
1 in-y have ii|M-m-d a lit ISIS I'AL p~r tbe . onvenieiice
us tboM* iiwiii: - - iv.-’ requiring Surgical attention; and
1 white pei sin.', nut able to pay, will he treated gra^js.
Accommodations comfortable.
® R J. BRI CE. M D.
Jftie 24, 1860. % J. R. M. REED, M D.
® Dr. .X. G. McDonald,
IN TENDERING Ills PROFESSIONAL SERYIfES
to the people .® Thomasville and vicinity, would in -
form®liem that lie has been practicing medicim- ill Jetfer
son County Florida, for live years, during winch time he j
has met.ana treated most of the disdlses which occur in
tills latitude. ® 0
® (IFFH ’B, on tie ®le street, near the office formerly
occupied l.v (’ J Harris @>
RLjilDENCjff, the I louse formerly occupied by E. L. 1
Anderstfti. ® #
Thomasville, January 7, 1860. ® , ts
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J)i‘. t;. .1. Olivcroß,
Frfictitioer of Medicine and Surgery,
jan 1 Thomas Cos., Ga. dy
Dr. S. S. Adams,
ITEREBY INFORM# Ills FRIENDS AND THE
T public, sliat he will continue the practice of medi
cine at the old stand and respectfully tenders li if services
to the public. „
Thomasville, Aprik.2, 1860. * „ ® ts
[kf.form practice.]
Dr. I*. N. Bower,
OFFERS HIS® PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Tt>
the citizens of Thomasville and vicinity.
Calls at all hours, promtply attended* ° mil IS ts
E9r. Brandon, 0 • i
Has removed to the office formerly
occupied by John Miller, Esq., as a Law Ottice.
Calls prongitly attended. 9
iif Special attention will given to Surgery an<Q
Surgical Disease^
Thomasville,January 15. ISBO. m •* ts
Dim. El. 16. 83. O. inmfffi
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Resident” Thomasville, Ga.
\\ r K HAVE THE Ol*
T T lit!cen’years experieilte in every
brsincli <f the profession. . •
We can refer to many w* 1 haveJia.l the
benefit of our operations in this Cmaity for
the [>ast six years. ‘ ®
W e hav(t,every faeiljtv for doing the best
•* ‘ Piafb-Work, • ••
KOW KNOWN, WHICH IS DENOMINATED
Contanuows Gum Work, “•
•on Platina I’tote, which i*inipervious to any of the acids.
Sven in a concentrated form. *
Teeth filled with pure gold in a superior manat r.
Patienfe favoring with tjicir confidence may rely
upon our utmost exertions to perform every operation in
“as perfect a mummer as®possible. * mh 10 ts
” a#i-s. E. ga. & S3, llafon, ,
AATfItULD RESPECT FULLY INFORM TIIE (TTI
T T iz.ens of Thomasville ® __
and vicinity, that they :&o „ f; n p
fitting up their A 4jj / t/,
‘l. ilicol 11 nil llcntal ‘y.o ‘
I N
The Deni vA Room is so r >
arranged as not to be moles- “£<■*>'. W *",V. vUx
ted by any business of the I JP. ‘ V V
MiiilicaM )lli< c. and will be “
licpt Strii'lli I’rivalc , “ —®
for Ladies and Gentlemen wishing Dental Operations.
And our patrons in MEDICINE may l>f assniil that
no ,\ct%>utl prescription to lhM>samc patient will be ad
ministered by a@y other than ® m
® 16. ja. I3ATOHT,
AS HE jIAS NO IN VeDICINE
an& his Drvfrs are o® fresh ■9‘td correctly Labeled .
OFFICE second door east of the oiu: formerly ficeupi
ed bt* Bruce & Eaton. mli'K) ts
* g New Dxug Store. *
DIS. S 5 . N. lias opened a Drug Store IV
the stand formerly occnpic4by PALMER vV BRO.,
E. Remington s, anal is prepared to furnish
Disigs, Merflrinas,
* FANCY SOAPS, Xo., <
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upon/air terms, to those who Jiiay favor Him with a call.
To bis Reform friends lie would sav, that le has on hand
a fresh and iw liabl* assortment <>t°
BGTAHfdi& EK&i NE S, *
and will be gl:l to supyjy them with such articles as 9
they may need. ® ®
9 ALSO,
Kerosine, Fine Cjgars and Tobacco, Fine
Brandies apd Wines, kept constantly on band and for
stile. may 23-ts *
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Dilips and .McJuiitcs.
T UST RECEIVED A LARGE AND WELL SELEC
ted stock of Drugs and Medicines, Chelicals ol’ all
kinds.
Also. Paims, Oils, G 1 ass, Putty, Varnish, Bmsheg. Dye
Stuifs, Patent Medicines, Garden Seeds, Toilet Articles,.
Perfumery, B@ishes, Ac. Kerosine Oil and Lamps;
Campliene, Burning Fluid and I@unps.
EDWARD SEIXAS, Druggist.
Thomasville, May 21,1850.® ts
Apothecary’s Hall.
riiHE SI'BSCRIBER. HAVING*T%jvEN A STORE
JL In Thouipsow’s New EScicSi i.iiifiiins,
respectfully invites the attentionsjf tla* public to bis com
plete and well selected stocl#of
Drugs,
Medicines,
ChemieiJls, ®
• Paints, ®
® ® Oils,
Dye-Stuffs,
Perfusaery,
® Spices,
m Tobacco, 0
Segars,
Fiue Brandies, ®
Wines,
Porter,
Ale,
Toilet-Soaps,
Potash,
® g, &c., &c-
ALL OF WHICH WfLL BE SOLD ON REASON
ABLE TERMS. #
CF 9 Attention given personally to the preparation of j
lMiyMcfhii’s Piest^ipHoiis.
*ff All MEDICINES warranted genuine?
n. g McDonald, m. and.
Thomasville, Ga.. June 6, 1860. ts
Saddle and Harness Manufactory.
\ LARGE AND COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF
ILtiia Saddles,
Rm. coMtanU, on ‘b.n.l
and for stile, at the Manu- ™ ’
factory of McGLASHAN &. LITTLE.
Harness and Saddle REPAIRING promptly at
tended to. ®
Thomasville,
Books! Books!
A CHOICE LOt OF BOOK'S. FROM THE BEST
Authors, in store and for stile, to which the attention
of Ladies and Gentlemen is invited.
PREMIUMS
awarded to the purchasers of seven 1 F.<.ks in the lot.
V G. M. DONALD.
Thomasville, Ga., June 6, 1860, , * ts
; Soda Water. •
rrHIIS DELIGHTFUL BEVERAGE, INTTS PER-
L fection —with choice Syrups —cool tyid sparkling —
commenced Drawing to-day for the season, at the store
of the undersigned.
FzT K'll kept on hand constantly, and for sale by
May 1,1860. ‘ JOHN SIARK
.THOMASVILL-E, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29,1&>0.
ADDRESSS ® •
OF THE NATION®I. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE * j
COXSTITI’TIOS.M. lAIOt PARTY .
TO TiIt?PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.
Fellutc- Citizens : —We beg leave to present
I to you. for you| consideration, a few of the rea
; soil:? which, In our judgment, make it the im
pejative duty of the reflecting and patriotic vo- .
burs of the United StStes to cti'6 their suffrages
at the coming Presidential election for John
Bell and Edward Everett, the candidates of the®
; Constitutional Union party. All men?whatev- 1
ever he their politicwl convictions, “arid in what
ever parts of the they may live, 1141st
/yjmit that our political* at this time*,
is at once unnatural and alarming. In all free ;
1 eoutitiies, governed by®representative bodies,
there ate, and eer must he, parties.—
The natural division til’ these parties is a coti
foftuity with certain original principles in lm
manTty itself. One party represents permanen
cy, and one progression, one tne propelling and
one the guiding principle. The prosperity and
health* growth of free countries depend upon
the adjustment and proportion of the forces rep
resented by these two parties, moving witftin
the sphere of tife Constitution, and alike in
spired by natriietic impulse. The parties \\jiich,
under vartoift eames, have, until a few years
pa#t, divided the c®untry, have t®presented, or
professed to represent, these principles, niough
it has oftgiv that the particular issijgs
on which tiiey were imposed were accidental,
and npt essential. #
But recently a change has Cime over the
’spirit of our ] 0 itics,'"find the natural ®nttigo
nism of parties has been jaistfu bt'd. In fifteen
of the tlsirty-tln-tfe States frhicli now comprise
our ('on the institudon of African 0
slavery exists; Snd ffll a®lmit that, Within
it is entirely beyond the sphere and ju
risdiction o| Government.® At the D
time of the formation of the Constitution it had
a legal existence, at le®st, in nearly all the
States. From fliat timeTo this ltTias been a
subject powerfully moving the sympathies And
passions, of a fart of die and it
etfnnot !te denied that it has considerably “en
hanced the uifficlt? : of governing and Adminis
tering the country. But the grave questions’
which*<jrew®out ih‘ the slavery were
always met with that wisdom and patriotism
which were always requisite for their adjustment
and solution, ‘j lie Constitution itself w®s th§
birth of a spirit otogencrous concessiontind
magnai:iious compromise; and in a like spir
iit’the country “was ltyig governed, oie crisis
bf more than common,/nagnitude and anil peril oc
curred in 18:30, upon the fit, Missou
ri, and another in 1850-, upon the* adpiission of
in both ebses aft-r some momeutsof anxious
suspense, 9 the g coals of strife wen? quenched, i
*pd harmony wa# restored. ® * 0 ,
At the adjournment of Congress in 1850,
“the country was at peace. There was no por
tion ot the territory of the United States widely
had nflt its condition fixed by positive, and as
was supposed, irrepealable law. The ahti-slu
very agitation had been mainly 0 coyfine.fi to a
fey? over-zealous pevson|,in certain localities.—
It had excited a disturbing force in the politics
of some of the States ; it had “sent some ar
dent partisans to the national “legislature, hf?t it
had no marked influence upon the politics of
the nation. No better proof can be adduced
in support of this position than thcpfact, that
at the i’residential election of the autumn of
1852, 51r. Hale, the candidate yf the l'reesoil
party, received but 0 158,120 votes, to Mr.
Fierce’s 1,590,895, and Gen. Scott’s Y, 393,089.
But this auspicious calm°was disturbed, and
all the winds of sectional srife were let loose by
events occurring between the Presidential elec
tion of 1852, 9 and that of 1850. Prominent
among these were the untoward abrogation of
the Missoufi Compromise in ESOsF the acts of
vioionee which occurred, in Kansas, and the
efforts of,the Fedral Administration
1 to force than Territory fii the Union. So great
was the eflcct produced by these causes that in
stead of Mr. Ilale’s meagre vote of 158,183,
Gel. Fremont, the Republican candidate, liyd
*1,841,514, to Mr. Buchanan,s 1,838,232, and
Mr. Filti-.sfe’s 874,707. Since that time the
Republican o party has nuifntaiyed its imposing
character, and now presents as formidable a
front before the country tj.s ft evyr did.
Great pains has been |akcn in the Northern
States by Republican speakers to represent the
disturbance of the Missouri Compromise as a
Southern measure? and one of the acts of what
’they arcgwint to call life slave power; but such
speakers show inure party zeal than love u4‘ truth.
Ihc Reeling in regard to that compromise was
substantially the same in both sections of the
country; each tint it hud yielded
scftnethiug of Constitutional right, hut both ac
quiesced to ihe result, as a measure of healing
and peace. Its appeal took the North juid
South alike by surprise; not a petition to that
effect*was presented from any Southern State,
and the hand that set this disastrous hall in
iifbtion was the hayd of a Northern Senator^ —
Thirty-seven Senators voted with him, and thir
teen against him, and of these fourteen were
froth the Northern States ; had these fourteen,
voted the other way, the compromise would not
Tiave been disturbed. The measflre was a Dem
ocratic measure, and the leaders of the Demo
cratic part\ are alone responsible for it, and for
its consequences. ®lhsy have sown the wind,
are now reaping the whirlwind. The retribu
tion which has, fallen upon their once power
ful organization c p an awaken 110 sympathy, for
it is no more than the righteous penalty exacted
from those who break the law of right. Their
party is now cleft in twain, and two divided
portions t|irn towards each other a countenance
of conflict” and unexDinguisha
ble animosity. @ There are no quarrels like jam
ily o quarrels, and there is nojiatred like the ha®
tred that once was love.
Mr. Douglas, representing tl?e principle or
rather the policy (for we deny it the name of
principle) of popular sovereignty, is strong at
the North. Mr. Breckinridge, representing
the doctrine of national intervention in behalf
of slavery, and identified wirti the present Ad
ministration, is -strong Somjp Mr. Doug
las will probably command a larger popular vote
than Mr. Breckinridge, but he certainly cannot
carry a single Southern--State, and unaided by
other parties his success in any Northern State
is questionable. It is doubtful whether Mr.
Breckinridge can obtain the vote bf more than
one Southern State, and he cannot hope td Air*
ry a single or*e in the Nortfi.
*4 he electioq of eitlter Mr. Breckinridge or
Mr'Bonglrt.s we should regard as a serioi* mis
fortune to the country. Except upon the par
ticular point on which they are at issqp, we may
persume that the course and policy “of their ad--
ministrations witnld he the same.
Tift e! ection of eifher would continue those
abuses afld corruptions which h§ve done
much to demoralize® our people, which have
Ifrougjit our institutions into such undeserved
distrust abroad, amt ygayist which the unper-.
verted conscience of the whole countw so ener
getically protests. *
But we deem it unnecessary a to speculate up
on the consequents of an yvent which can
never take place. The election of either 51 r.
Douglas or Breckinridge is simply an impossi
bility and the Democrat it® party North and
South may well look for this act steadily in the
face to day as” hereafficr, for to this conclusioe
they *must at last. A political house
divided against itslf cannot stand. Every man
in the country, of sound mind, whose wtish is
not faiher to his thoughts, mult lie convinced
that neither of the Demqpratic candidates can
o 0
be chosen by a popular vote.
Before the peoule of the United States the
contest is between f Mr.Bcll and Mr. Lincoln:
and, assuming this as?a fixed fact, we proceed
to state some df the reasons which shftild induce
all \feil-wishers of country to vote for the
former rathe# than the hitter. The** reasfins
apply with equal force to the t North® and the
South.® * • • ® ,
The great, the oh\/ou, 4hc insuperable ob
jection to Mr. Lincoln's claims is founded uj*m
fact that he is a sectional candidate, and
that the n is a sectional parky.
In fifteen out of the thirty-three States, which,
compose our Union, the Republican party has
no substantial existence : and, should 51 r. Lin
culn be chosen, his administration could have
no Southern support, but only Southern oppo
sition. We are well aware how energetically
the Republican party disclaims all designs hos
tile to the Constitutional rights of the Soutli !
we believe that nftny ®f its members are ton
cere in these disclaimers; the distrtist awaken
ed thftughout the # Sk>uth by the existence and
attitude of tfie Republican party may be a
“groundless distrust.
That the Republican party is lionesfcly believ
ed throughout the whole South to be g section
al party, and,%s sucli, is viewed with fib com
promising hostilitji,is ’enough for the purpose
of our argument. IT they have caraed suuii a
reputatiorj without deserving it, it is a nnstor
tune, to the Amscipiences of
;*lmit. 13ut surely they liuvin not earned it
without cause. To°say nothing of ihc atrocious
afld ranCairatitable language which their m#st
popular Speakers Sre in the habit of using-—to
say nothing of the’fact that many of their cam
paign documents are mere abolition'harangues,
made up of the foulesP and fiercest aiuse of the
’entire South —the unconstitutional statutes
which sosie of the Northerly, States have pass
ed against the execution of the fugitive slave
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law, are in direct opposition to the professions
of the party, and justify the distrust iflnch the
South entertains of them. *
We do not say that the election of slr. Lin
eo% would he fatfll to the Unfim. We are no
disunionists ; ?md no disunionist has a right to
be a member of the Constitutional Union party.
Lnderany combinationoof circumstan-
we cannot conceive of a dissolution of the
Union as anything hut the greatest of calami
ties. Come what T ill, *We shaft stand by the
Union as the myst prScious jewel of our souls.
But knowing the pjoud and sensativc spirit of
the Southern people, we do say that tin? elec
tion o of 51r. Lincoln o the Union to
a peril” to which no true patriot should wish to
it “exposed. And, further we d o o say that
the attempt to govern the country upon the dis
tinctive and peculiar principles of the Repub
lican party would he fut*d to the Union. In
other words, ®the on the® part of the
National Government, by positive law, to ex
clude slavery from such portion of the national*
domain as would becoiie slave territory but for
such exclusion, would, in our opinion, break up
the Union. And the converse of #he proposi
tion is equally true; any attempt on the part of
the National Government to force slavery by
positive law into sucli* portion of the national
domatn as wpuld become Tree territory hfit, for
*uch intervention,would also break up the Union.
The calm and dispassionate obsever can see
in the Republican movement only a combina
tion of the Northern States to take the govern
ment of thee whole country into their handg,
and to administer it with reference to an exclu
sively Northern goli?y. And in like manner,
the supporters of*Breckinridge propose to take
the gofernment of the whole country into their
hands, with a view of administering it with ref
erence to an exclusively Southern policy. In
either case, tha result, would he a diversion of
the General Governnftent from its legitimate
sphere; or rather®an assumption of powers 411
the part of the General Government not dele
gated to it, which one half of the Confederacy
regard us a usurpation, and to which it
would refuse to submit. The fact that our
Union is composed in part of slaveholding
States, and fti part of non-slaveholding States,
imposes grave©duties upon both sections —du-
ties of forbearance, concessions, and concilia
tion; respect for each other’s convictions; ten
derness in handling <kch others sensitive points
—in short, such of self-control and self-a
government as regulate in social life, and in the
relation of business,’the intercourse of gentle
men who may chance In differ widely on the
grawest questions. To these duties *we°would
fain recall both The North and South. e Ihe
Union is a blessing, the continuance of which
ifnposes soon? sacrifices ob both portions of the
coanfry. Neither pro-slavery o zealots nor anti
slavery zealots can use the powers of the Gen
eral Government for the advancement of their
own peculiar views,however honestly entertained.
It is a necessary consequence of the unhappy
fact that our political contests have become
mere struggles for the possession of power be
tween the North and the South, that our politi
cal discussions haveiUectWe little else than
mutual criminations and recriminations. The |
people no ldbger listen to arguments, addressed j
toHheir reasons, Pn defence of peculiaf mcas- *
Hires, fir a certain course of “policy, hut to ex
citing appeals to •they’ sectional prejudices,
which only heat the blood and inflame the pas
sions. The North is taught to hate the South,
and the South is taught to hate the Nojtli. On
both sides, language is used which is studiousjy
selected for its °oxa*pcj;uthg quali
ties. There is no recognition of the law of
charity, which suffers loot? andis kind; there
is 114 admission yf the treinenckius difficult ies |
which environ the whole subject of Slavery ;
Northern speakers denounce the South for ufain
taining the system, and yet they are unable to
suggest any scheme for getting rid of it; South
urn speakers make no distinction between the
rankest abolitionism and that abstract opposition
to slavery in itself, which is an almost universal
sentiment at the Nbrtli. And out of the im
mense mass of speeches on the subject of sla
very which have be® inflicted upon the country,
iy Congress hnd out of it, not one hint or sug
gestiqp can he gathered of tlie®least pratical
value toifards a solution of the problem of sla
very, or even a mitigation of its assumed evils.
The coftscquences of this miserable agitation
have been of the most melancholy kind. The
attachment which formerly united the iforth and
south is fast, and estrangement,
alienation and ill will are taking its place. ’ The
two sections ofe the country are learning to look
upon £ach other as natffval enemies. This state
of feeling renders it impossible for the “National
Legislature to legislate calady, judiciously, dis
passionatqJjPfor the common g®nd of the whole
counfry? Congressional debates have degener
ated into mutual vituperations and denuncia
tions, and arc disgraced by the most offensive
personalities. All propositions are judged of,
not by their essential expediency hut by the
quarter from which they come. Os what use 9
i* it, then, for the Republican party to spread
forth in ..platform an ehijjorate array of
measures and principles,*so long as sectional di
vision Exists in our politics* which makes °one
half of the country look wit°h suspicion find
distrust upon Vvery movement of Jie otlnyi’
Nor is this all. The tendency of this sec
tional qxcitement is to repel wise and good nftn
from the sphere of politic®, and thus to lower
the tone of government. sfqp endowed with
statesmanlike powers will not take part in an
agitation which dwarfs the understanding while
4t ififl ames the passions. The.consequence is,
that while we are rapidly increasing in wealth
and all the indications of material civilization,
and surely not declining in virtue and intelli
gence, “Ihe series of our public men marks a
descending scale, and the Standard of Congres
sional debate is constantly lowering. Itelligent
foreigners who come among us are puzzled t<*
account for the singular fact, that so few men
of superior ability are part iu the gov
ernment of the country, indeed, the yirtue ahd
“intelligence of the country are fast ebbing
away from the spitfire of politics, and its vices
and passions are usurping their places. 0o
The pro-slavery and anti-slavery agitation
which has beeqso long convulsing°the coftntry,
is as unnecessary as it is mischievous. The
mhre conservative portion of the B c P u^>can
]?arty have tacitly ifcquicsccd in the*Fugitive
81ave tt law, isl tjie existence of slavery in the
district of Columbia, and in the right to carry
t slaves from one StateJ.o anothci” and they have,
always disclaimed any right, or any intefttion,
to yiterferq Hath slavery in the 9 States then®
selves. TJie subject of slavery in the Territo
ries, and the power of Congress over it there,
are the only poiuts*tliqy leave lor discussion and
difference. Jf government he a practical ifrtj
as s,:rely it is—if the object off government be, 1
not to enunciate principles, hut td pfavide for
each emergency as it arises—all this fixeitement
and all this conflict are ngarly purposeless *tnd
idle. We have been familiar •with slavery lfmg
enough to know by wlrot laws it is°regulated
and “Experience and observation
have shown that slavery is (pjpetftlentHipftn c#n
ditisns of and climate, and lies beyond the
resell j)f political combinations. 0
These will not force slavery into the regions
where ik is not profitable 9 At this moment no
one wul question the correctness of the state
ment that is not„a foot of the territory of
the United States, the condition of which in
reference to slavery is not already fixed bv law,
and flicrcis 110 place within the Federal do
main, upoi? which the abstract theories of the
extremists of either section, in regard,4o the
exclusion of slavery from the Territories or its
introduction into them, can he pr itically applied.
The whole question of slavery in the Territo
ries, a£ now presented, is an abstraction quire,
and simple, incapable of practical application,
find prolific ofit serious mischief. It hasalfeady
produced sectional alienation, and now menaces
the integrity of the Union. ®
To.create and maintain this unhappy® agita
tion, North and SoutH, Democrats and Repub
lican’s—we need ntft stop to inquire in what
proportions —liavfi botlj contributed in times
past; hut St this moment, the Republican party
are mainly responsible for its continuance. ,§4 he
great object which they proposed to accomplish
was the admission of Kansas ®as a fre#State.
This was the excuse and* justification for the
formation of a*purely sectional organization.—
This e)ement°gave them their great strength in
185 G. It was for this that many moderate and
conservative men in the Northern and 51iddle*
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States gave them their votes at that time. But
that© object is now accomplished. No one
cfbifbts that Kansas is to be admitted as a free
State. The Democrats have lost the stake for
wlych they played so desperate a game.
What need then L there for the further con
tinuance of sectional agitation, and for keeping
it up by a mischievous sectional organization ‘(
What immediate end do they propose to accom
plish ? What tangible object Lal*e they in
view? They have not now that moral element
which gave them strength in 1856. They can
now take no higher attitude than that of a com
bination of ambitious
fice seekers, who, having tasted the sweets of
power, ar#i its substantial rewards, in many of
the States, are panting for the more splcnSid
prize of a national victorypand for that purpose
are diligently fanning flic fires of sectional hate,
which every true patriot should wish to have
extinguished. o
So far as the claims and qualifications of can
didates are concerned, we surely need not shrink
from comparison with the Republican party.— *•
For the first time in the history of the country,
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a gret party has nominated for the Presidency
a man ifliknown, even by nanie, to a majority
of the people. 31 r. Lincoln, we admit, is a re
spectable man, a respectable lawyer, and as a
popu!ar*speaker, of probably more than average
ability; but what a meagre catalogue is this of
claims for the highest office! Nothing what*
eveys known of his executive or administrative
capacity —limbing of his views as to the great
questions of foreign and domestic*policy which
are likely to arise in the©conduct of the Gov
ernment —nothing as to his knowledge of the
great interests and relations of the country.
lie served but a single term in the House of
Representatives, aqd there earned no conspicu
ous distinction. His nomination was extorted 0
from the Chicago Convention by the force of
local pressure, and presents the most glaring
example of the pitiful doctrine of availability
tlufct the political annals of the country have
ever shown. His claims for the office of Presi
dent of the United States®rest* upon the fact
that* in a 9 popular contest before the people of
Illinois, \sitli Mr. Douglas, he sustained him
self energy and faiF ability. Nor ieqd
we do lyore than advert to the fact, which is
another illustration of the sefttional character”
of the Republican Organization, 111 at their can- c
didate for the Presidency Ts talren®from the ex
treme Nftrthwestf and their candidate for the
Vice Presidency is taken from the
Northeast. What means can they have for
ktlowing Ofr ascertaining the qualifications of
persons to fill the Federal offices in the South
ern States. *® @ °®
The candidates presented by the Constitution -
l al l uion party have every possible claim upon
the confidence and suppifrt of the American
people. There is littfo need gs setting fortK
jhese claims in detail ©and by particulars for to*
suppose any oiffe ignormit of the merits and
services of John Bell and Edward Everett is to
him ignorant of the history of the
country daring the last -thirty yeass. Both
have been distinguished.anckinfluential mem
bo*rs of both branches of Congress. Ah\ Bell
lias bceti speaker of the House of Representa
tives and Secretary©of Wiir. Mr. Everett has
been Governor *of “Massachusetts, Minister to
Great Britain utal Secretary of State. Both,
are then of groat political experiance, and both
have proved their fitness for the highest trusts*
Both ;tre animated by the spirit of a generous
and conTprelnsisive patriotism. Os all South
ern Statesmen, none is more popular at the
North than Mr. Bell; of all Northern states
men, none is more endeared to the pe®ple.of
the South than Mr. Everett.
.So commanding, indeed, is the merit of both
our candidates, that it is fully and freely conced
ed by all our opponents. Republicans, support
ers of Aft. Douglas, aftd supporter of Mr.’
Breckinridge, olleulmit that, while they prefer
otheas, the interest of the coifntry would bo*en
tirely said inthe. hands of Mr. Bell, and Mr.
Everett. All would acquiestfe in the election
of°our candidates. Indeed, the argument most
gtnenflly and most persistently pressed against”
Them is, liiat they cannot be elected. 0 We need
not say hdw grave a charge agajnst the intelli
gence and• integrity of our people *
in this declaration, and that every ma7>wliQ
resolves to vote for them, he the resist w?i a fit
may, doa# something to lessen the weight of
this objection. Let us have the vote of eyery
man in the country who sincerely believes that
ours is the host ticket, and wejisk no more.
j3uch, fellow citizens, are a few of the most
oh vious arguments in behalf of the candidates
of the Constitutional Union party. 0 We cannot
1 it from you we look forward to
the future with grave anxiety. Tlifs is natural
when we consider the excitability of the Ameri
can peophs, and the ©inflamatory character, of
,tRe political issues which now divide them.—
Surely, great dangers lie in the path on which
o we are moving, o Our appeal is lo the patriotism,
the wisdom and the conscience of thl country
to leave thes# perilous edges df sectional strife,
and thus avoid tjaese dangers.© We would fain 0
recall the American people ?o a ftesll sense of
the aifactionate and fraternal wisdom which
breathes through th Farewell 6 Address of the
Father of his Country. @
There are men now living who, when tlys ad*
dress first appeared, w?re of an age to compre
hend its spirit, and to be touched by its coun
sels ; what a change have lived to witness
in the sentiments entertained towards each other
by the ®alienated sections of out once xinited
country. And how do our altered hearts ancT
averted faces vindicate the prophetic sagacity ■
iof Washington ? We readily admit there
have been on both sides, let us not
employ ourselves in the ungracious office of
comparing offences and weighing provocations,
but Jet us open wide the arms of reconciliation,
and cease to use the language of reproach.—
The blessing promised to the peftce-makers shall *
rest upon all who address themselves to this
beneficient work. We o wish to preserve the
Union and transmit it to our children, and a
Union animated by th<2 life blood of a paternal
spirit, without which it is a shadow and not a°
substance. © .
Let us revive in the hearts of our countfyy
men the prophetic declaration of tHe patriot
£lay, in his memorable speech before the Ken
tucky Legislature, when he was called, in 1850,
to breathe out las life in the last grand effort to
give peace to a distracted country :
“ I may be asked, as I have been asked, when I
woul<%;onsent to a dissolution of the Union. I an
swer, Never! Never'. Never! * * * Iftheagi
,lation in regard to the fugitive slave law should con
tinue and increase, and become alarming, it will*
fetid to the formation of two new parties, one for
the Union, and the other against the Union, * * *
and the platform of that Union party will be, The
Union, the Constitution, and the Enforcement of the
Laics. And if it should pc necessary to form such
a party, and it chould be accordingly formed, 1 an
nounce myself in this place a gnember, of that °
whatever may be its component elements. „
The time so eloquently and graphically predicted
has arrived. That Union party is now organized.
It the countrymen of Washingion and
Clay sos their support. It entreats them to gather
in serried phalanx around the Union and the Consti
tution, and defend them from the fierce assaults of
sectionalism whencesoever they may come ; and, by
the election of our natural and patriotic candidates
to preserve for our sons the glorious heritage be
queathed us by our sires, it shall remain the
boast® of American citizens that they have “one
country, one Constitution, and one destiny.”
By order of the Committee. •
ALEX. R, BOTELER, Chairman.
, L. A. Whitley, Secretary.
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